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After three months in Japan, Edward Bale had the necessary points to rotate back to the United States. He left Nagasaki...

While approaching Wana Draw on Okinawa, George Peto noticed some movement in the brush off to his left. He realized...

William Pierce was assigned to Weapons Company, 29th Regiment [Annotator's Note: Weapons Company, 29th Marine Regiment...

Wim de Jonge worked in unsafe conditions in the coal mines of Japan. He was there for about a year. That was the...

When he was discharged from Company C, 23rd Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Floyd Fogg said he "had it good… but...

Thomas J. Smith, Junior was looking forward to seeing the enemy. The Marines were under the Navy. After training, they...

Mark Maynard’s second war patrol on his submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] used the deck gun to fire...

Byron Herbert Meader was born in May 1919 in Ellsworth, Maine. His father worked as a laborer. During the Great...

Fred Wesighan enlisted in the Army after he graduated in high school because he "did not like people kicking around our...

Robert Lewter was inducted in Georgia. From there he got on a train to Camp Polk, Louisiana [Annotator's Note: now Fort...

Bill Toledo was sent to code talker [Annotator's Note: person employed by the military to use a little-known language...

Lynward Joseph "Buddy" or "Bud" Adams was born in April 1923 in New Orleans [Annotator's Note: New Orleans, Louisiana...

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